1-in-5 rape and murder suspects are migrant

IMMIGRANTS make up almost one in five of all murder and rape suspects, a Sun
investigation has revealed.

Data obtained from police forces across England and Wales shows how people
arrested for major crimes come from all over the globe.

A total of 91 foreign nationals were charged with murder and 406 accused of
rape last year.

In London, of the 547 people charged with rape in the past 12 months, 174 were
non-UK citizens.

They included immigrants from Afghanistan, Angola, Ghana, Macedonia, Russia,
Zimbabwe and Chile.

The nations whose individuals were charged the most frequently with rape in
the capital were Jamaica, 19 suspects, Nigeria, 11, Poland, ten, and
Australia, nine. Also in London, a total of 197 people were charged with
murder — including 40 immigrants.

In Kent, a staggering 53 per cent of the 17 murder suspects were non-UK
citizens, including four people from India and three from Romania.

In South Yorkshire, of the 22 people charged with murder, six were non-UK.
The figures — obtained by The Sun under Freedom of Information rules — raise
serious questions over the Government’s immigration policy and the need for
tighter controls.

In April last year illegal immigrant Yonas Beraki, 34, returned to Britain
from Eritrea, East Africa, to murder his ex-girlfriend — after being
deported THREE times.

Euro-MP Gerard Batten, UKIP’s home affairs spokesman, said: “It bears out the
public perception that our open door immigration policy doesn’t just attract
decent migrants but serious and dangerous criminals.”

A UK Border Agency spokesman said last night: “We will always seek to deport
any foreign criminals — and in 2011 we removed over 4,500 foreign national
offenders.”